History of scholarship : a selection of papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute / edited by C.R. Ligota and J.-L. Quantin.

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The history of scholarship has recently undergone a complete renewal: it is now a major branch of research. The contributors - all specialists of international standing - illustrate a variety of themes and approaches. A substantial introduction surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion. - ;The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and.

List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Colossus of Rhodes: Ancient Texts and Modern Representations -- 2. Renaissance Philology: Johannes Livineius (1546-1599) and the Birth of the Apparatus Criticus -- 3. The Measure of Rome: André Schott, Justus Lipsius and the Early Reception of the Res gestae divi Augusti -- 4. Critice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and the Rise of the Notion of Historical Criticism -- 5. Early Christianity in Michael Neander's Greek-Latin Edition of Luther's Catechism -- 6. A Sixteenth-Century Hebraic Approach to the New Testament -- 7. Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist and Censor -- 8. Spencer, Maimonides, and the History of Religion -- 9. Anglican Scholarship Gone Mad? Henry Dodwell (1641-1711) and Christian Antiquity -- 10. A German Spinozistic Reader of Cudworth, Bull, and Spencer: Johann Georg Wachter and his Theologia Martyrum (1712) -- 11. Pierre Des Maizeaux: History, Toleration, and Scholarship -- 12. The Pre-adamites: An Abortive Attempt to Invent Pre-history in the Seventeenth Century? -- 13. Hamann and the History of Philosophy -- 14. Theory and Methodology of History from Chladenius to Droysen: A Historiographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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